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Jukai Maze is a sci-fi suspense visual novel built around one simple idea: every choice you make pushes the story onto a different track. Not a tiny detour. A real split. If you like the feeling of picking a door and realizing you can’t un-know what you just chose, this is that kind of ride.

The setup starts with a rumor that sounds half ridiculous and half too specific to be fake: a research institute at the foot of Mount Fuji, supposedly studying the afterlife. You step into Aokigahara with Shiu for what should be a straightforward vlog shoot. Then night falls, mist thickens, and your sense of direction goes missing right along with your friend. Shiu vanishes. You - as Haryu Ryoushi - get pulled into another “reality” and wake up in a strange psychiatric hospital.

And the people inside? They talk like you’ve walked into an argument where nobody agrees on the rules. “This place is a dream.” “This place is another planet.” “This place is the afterlife.” You’re stuck in that uncomfortable space where any explanation could be true, and all of them could be traps.

What you do in Jukai Maze

You read. You decide. You live with the consequences. Jukai Maze is structured around branching routes that twist and diverge with each decision you make. The story doesn’t just react - it commits. One choice can shift your relationships, your understanding of what happened in the forest, and how you interpret the hospital and the people in it.

You also investigate, in the visual novel way: you piece together scattered clues as the boundary between truth and illusion starts to crumble. And just when you think you’ve got a handle on what’s real, a baffling murder case pulls you deeper into the maze. It’s the kind of mystery where you keep asking yourself: am I solving it, or is it solving me?

Multiple endings, not one “correct” answer

You’re not aiming for a single golden path. You explore multiple endings, and each one is another angle on what’s actually going on. Some routes will feel like answers. Others will feel like a new question with teeth. If you’re the type who likes to compare outcomes and connect threads across playthroughs, you’ll have reasons to return.

Presentation and features you’ll actually notice

The game is fully voiced in Japanese, which gives scenes a strong sense of presence - especially when characters are saying things that sound like madness but might be the most honest statements in the room.

Visually, it leans into a cinematic presentation with expressive, nuanced character portraits. That matters in a story where a tiny change in expression can make a line read as comfort, threat, or denial.

• Clear, elegantly structured storytelling that supports its branching routes
• Expressive character portraits to sell tension and doubt
• Cinematic visual presentation for key moments
• Jukai Photo Mode that lets you freely explore the sea of trees

Why the setting hits

You’re moving between a spectral forest under a shadowed sea of trees and a facility-like hospital space that refuses to explain itself. Beneath it all sits a volcanic mountain, stirring, while omens of the world’s end creep closer. It’s not just “spooky woods.” It’s a place that feels loaded, like the environment is listening.

And the central question hangs over everything: Do you believe in the existence of an afterlife? In Jukai Maze, that’s not a trivia prompt. It’s a pressure point. Your choices don’t only steer plot - they shape what you’re willing to accept as possible.

Should you play Jukai Maze?

If you want a suspenseful visual novel where you play in second-guessing, shifting realities, and branching routes that genuinely diverge, Jukai Maze is worth your time. Go in ready to make calls with incomplete information. That’s the whole point. And when you reach an ending, ask yourself the obvious follow-up: was that the exit, or just another turn in the maze of Jukai Maze?